I noticed that in America, we seem to not do national releases of very many foreign movies from overseas in theaters. When was the last time we had a foreign movie that spoke entirely in a foreign language? Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger? That other movie with a dude on a boat with a tiger? Talking about the last 20-30 years up until streaming services.
I think the American entertainment industry is trying to keep americans isolated. So they can't see movies from other countries where they can compare it to American made movies. So we can't see how bad american made movies are. To keep us from seeing other cultures and to see their perspective.. to see that they don't use ugly goblinas or trannies or POC. If you watch a chinese, korean or japanese movie.. most of the cast are handsome or pretty/cute and are like 99.9% asian lol. Maybe our country will be less woke when we actually see what other cultures around the world is doing.
Even with streaming services (which i dont use since they are all woke as hell), last big name was Squid Games? After that not much foreign things that took off. Maybe that Shogun show, but its niche.
I also notice.. movies aren't butchered as badly with translations and localization when compared to video games. But that is for a different day hehe.
I think that might be a local thing or you just not noticing.
My local megachain has random anime movies playing weekly, from classics to current flavor, with dedicated showings to certain subbed foreign movies in small runs as they come out. And that's just the corporate one. The drive-in plays all sorts of random shit and the local theater competitor will squeeze in anything that's popular enough regardless of origin.
Now most don't know that because they don't advertise it at all except inside the fucking building itself and on their own dedicated section of a website, so you need to be proactive in checking to see if anything is available but it is there.
But I can watch almost any Miyazaki movie or Akira or even End of Eva or the FMA movie in theaters at some point during the year. Same with every Godzilla from Japan as it arrives and a bunch of them playing randomly, as well as a bunch of famous Samurai movies.